I just don't see many people shipping AI software right now in the way AI applies to AVs. But I'm also giving you my two cents as someone who's not only buildi

I just don't see many people shipping AI software right now in the way AI applies to AVs. But I'm also giving you my two cents as someone who's not only building in the space, but sitting next to * a lot of the people who will use something like this, and there's some real fatigue building around the flood of tooling for "LLMOps". * figuratively and literally: checking my past events after the sibling mentioned your YC connection and even you and I have been to at least one mutual AI event — At the end of the day I get that as a startup you need to weave stories sometimes: If this was a Launch HN I wouldn't have bothered with my comment and that's kind of what my "ignore this" intro is getting at. But we went from chatbots to selling shovels in a gold rush as the default AI play in the last couple of months. Most builders will take any excuse to assume any given tool is just another rushed shovel. So you don't want to invite the mental friction of "ML vs AI": at most I'd mention you're former coworkers at Cruise and let the people amenable to that connection make it themselves. For the rest of us even knowing two former coworkers are working on something is enough to build some confidence in its staying power.